FF8/FileFormat INF

By myst6re.

Contents

Gateways/Triggers

Offset	Size	Data
0	9	Name of field (\0 terminated)
9	1	Control Direction
10	6	Unknown
16	2	Like [PVP] value
18	2	Height to focus the camera on the character (0= Focus on the feet, 200= normal focus)
20	8*8	Camera Ranges
84	2*8	Screen Ranges
100	32 * 12	Gateways
384	16 * 12	Triggers

Range data

Gives the limits of the camera when moving.

typedef struct {
	qint16 top;
	qint16 bottom;
	qint16 right;
	qint16 left;
} Range;

Camera Range

Each range corresponds to a background layer.

Screen Range

Always (0, 224, 320, 0) twice. The first range change the screen resolution, the second seems to do nothing.

Gateways data

Passage between fields.
For each gateway:

Offset	Size	Data
0	6	Vertex 1 of exit line (maybe x,z,y)
6	6	Vertex 2 of exit line (maybe x,z,y)
12	6	Destination vertex
18	2	Field ID (or 0x7FFF if unused gate)
20	4 * 2	Unknown (or 0x7FFF)
28	4	Unknown (four equal bytes)

Triggers data

Doors interactions.
For each trigger:

Offset	Size	Data
0	6	Vertex of corner1
6	6	Vertex of corner2
12	1	Door ID (or 0xFF)
13	3	Blank

Old formats

In the PC version, you can sometimes see older versions of this format, there are three that are more similar to the format of Final Fantasy VII.

672 bytes format

The first Unknown data are 4 bytes and there is no PVP field.

576 bytes format

Same as 672 bytes format + the first Unknown data in Gateways are not present (like FF7).

504 bytes format

Same as 576 bytes format + There is only one camera range and no screen range.